Security: You Either Get It or You Don’t

Printing challenges to converters

According to Ryckman, “The major challenge facing the labeling industry is to deliver a mutlilayer approach at a reasonable cost that is secure and easy to manage. Some features require sophisticated and costly equipment that is not very portable. It is imperative that the first line of defense be a secure, overt solution that does not require a heavy investment in infrastructure in order to be used. The more complicated layers may require sophisticated methods of detection or authentication, since those will not be used at as many points throughout the chain.”